Education Week – New Dates

Thank you for your patience as we worked to settle on some new dates for the postponed Education Week activities. We are pleased to be able to have arranged all the activities to take place in Week 8 as follows.

• Monday 5^th September – Picnic lunch followed by Walkathon – 1pm start
• Monday 5^th September – 3-6 Student Showcase in classrooms 3:30-5pm
• Tuesday 6^th September – Fizzics Science Show for Science Week – More information to follow (activity is for families after school)
• Wednesday 7^th September – Performance Assembly for parents to attend – 1:45pm start
• Wednesday 7^th September – K-2 Student Showcase in classrooms 3:30-5pm

We look forward to seeing you at these events. As will be the case please only attend if you are well. If you have any cold or flu like symptoms you are asked not to attend.

Jazz Band – Ryde Eisteddfod

Last Thursday I had the opportunity to supervise and watch the school’s Jazz Band perform at Ryde-Eastwood Leagues Club. The 16 students performed superbly, and as they were the first band of the day they set the bar extremely high for the other schools that followed. As it turned out their standard held up to its lofty heights throughout the Eisteddfod with the Band being placed first in their section. A fabulous performance. Special thanks to the many parents who gave up their time to transport the students and instruments for this performance. It was certainly one to remember. Thanks also to Mr Odams the Conductor for his efforts with the band, and the Band program, over many years. Well done to all.

Athletics Carnival

Last Tuesday the school was able to hold its first Athletics Carnival in three years, and what a magnificent day it was. It was wonderful to see so many students participating in many races and demonstrating the Penno spirit by supporting their peers. It was very pleasing to see so many parents come down and support the students. Well done to Mr Bryant and his team for their seamless organisation. Congratulations to all competitors. Information for those who will be selected to represent our school at the upcoming Beecroft Zone PSSA Athletics Carnival will be sent home shortly.

NSW PSSA State Football (Soccer) State Carnival – Bathurst

Last week Lily (Year 6) represented Sydney North PSSA at the State Carnival. I had the opportunity to speak with her last Friday and she was very proud of her efforts at the carnival and the team did very well. In fact, they placed first in their pool and were all ready to play off in the semi-finals against the team that placed second in the other pool when mother nature stepped in and washed out the carnival. Certainly a disappointing end to an exceptionally strong performance in the Pool stages at the carnival. Well done Lily!

Kind Regards

Matt Pinchbeck

Principal

Kind Regards

Kate Wasson

Deputy Principal

3B - William P, Luc P, Ashley H, Henry H, Natalie S

3D - Joey C, Leonardo D, Rehan K, Emilija L, April F, Gwen E

3H - Audrey W, Reyansh S, Nathalie H, Johan A, Ajai D, Tommy J, Ella K

4B - Zachary C, Liam B, Quintin L, Lara B, Madeleine W, Sasha S

4D - Sophie S, Charles D, Karina C, Owen S, Stuart W, Penelope K

4F - Austin D, Megan N, Yoninah F, Jayne K, Lachlan P, Lucas V

5B - Edward C, Josie T, Lauren N, Flynn K

5M - Lucinda B, Jamie K, Charlotte J, Reuben T

6S - Callum D, Spyridon J, Annabelle K, Alie J, Sebastian C, Liam C

The office is following the PHPS Eco Warrior / Green Team's lead and doing their bit to help the environment.

In an effort to save paper, all permission notes sent home with your child will be uploaded on the school website.  

In the event that your child's note is misplaced and you require a replacement:

• Please visit the following link https://pennanthil-p.schools.nsw.gov.au/newsletter-and-notes/permission-to-publish.html
• Notes are listed below their relevant heading
  • Whole School
  • Early Stage 1
  • Stage 1
  • Stage 2
  • Stage 3
• Notes can be downloaded and either emailed back to the school or returned

We appreciate your assistance in this sustainable initiative. 

Ms Klimoski

School Administration Manager

Netball - against Cherrybrook

Girls: Lost 13-4

Boys: Lost 2-1

Soccer

Girls: Won: 9-0

Boys: Won: 4-3

Miss Billington and Miss Dy

Stage 2 PSSA Coordinators

Netball

Girls: lost 25-5

Boys: lost 14-5 

Soccer

Girls: drew 1-1

Boys: lost 5-0,

Mr Bryant and Miss Steel

Stage 3 PSSA coordinators

Dance Spectacular Coordinators

Every year the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has brought children and books together across Australia through its annual Book Week and Book of the Year awards. The aim of Book Week is to highlight the importance of reading. During this time schools, libraries, bookshops, authors, illustrators and children celebrate Australian children’s literature. This year, the theme is “Dreaming with eyes open …”

Book Character parade

To celebrate this event, we will be holding a Book Character parade on Tuesday 23 August. On this day we are asking the students to come dressed as their favourite book character for this special fun filled parade. There has been discussion during library lessons to help students with ideas for their costumes, with the suggestion that some students may like to use their creative talents and make a costume. The costumes do not need to be elaborate and there are plenty of ideas on Pinterest and Google if you need some inspiration.

Parents are invited to attend the parade which will be held on the K-2 site at 10.30 am.

We look forward to celebrating this literary event and seeing amazing book characters.

Ms Gai Davis

Teacher Librarian

President’s Message

Hi All,

Thanks to everyone who joined the virtual P&C meeting last Tuesday night, it was great to kick start Term 3. Also a big thank you to the School for a well organised 3-6 Athletics carnival, I know the kids had a lot of fun on the day, and thanks to Canteen for providing snacks.

Our annual Walkathon has been postponed due to the Cross Country date moving to 2nd August. We will update you as soon as we have a new date, more details are below.

Students can continue to gain sponsorship using the form in preparation for the Walkathon

The Art and Sip night is being held for parents this Friday 12th August in the school hall. Grab a friend or three and come along for a fun night (BYO supper and drinks). There are still a handful of tickets left so be quick! Pay via Flexischools, the details are in the poster below.

PHPS Raffle Planning - raising funds towards solar panels for the school!

We are excited to start planning our Annual P&C Raffle - to be drawn at the Dance Spectacular on Friday 28th October. The raffle raises a significant amount of funds, which will be paid towards our 2022 initiative of solar panels for the school.

We need plenty of parents to support the raffle as many hands make this light, social and fun! Volunteering can be done in your own time and will not require a big commitment.

Here’s the link to Sign Up to the team. This is our major fundraiser this year so a parent from every class to join the team would be ideal.  

The September P&C (Tuesday 6 September 7.30pm) will be held in person in the K-2 hall, it would be great to catch up with many of you in person!

The P&C is seeking volunteers for Gardens & Grounds, supporting occasional working bees and specific projects in keeping the school grounds looking great. If you have an interest please email me - pandcpresident@gmail.com.

The P&C held a poster competition at the Welcome back BBQ to promote our school’s Return and Earn program. Posters had to include useful information such as:

 

Return and Earn bins have orange lids and are on each site.

Containers must be empty and uncrushed.

Eligible containers have a 10c logo on the label.

 

We received many beautiful posters! The posters will be displayed around the school.

Congratulations to Gwen who won the first prize and Darcy who got the the second prize.  

 

Well done everybody! Let's keep contributing to our school community and the environment!

If you would like to subscribe to our P&C meeting emails (minutes and agendas), please subscribe at the following link: http://eepurl.com/dlK3PD

Luke Whenman

P&C President

pandcpresident@gmail.com

Yesterday was International Cat Day!!!!

Of course most cats believe that everyda is all about them. Mine certainly do!!!

Our Canteen stall at the 3-6 Carnival was a huge success!! We sold out of quite a few items, which I will remember for next year.

Thank you so much to Rebecca D, Amanda S and Alicia C for your help in serving the hordes.

Please remember the “Stage 3 PSSA ALERT” where applicable when ordering lunches on Fridays.

If you have any questions, or would like to be involved in the canteen, please contact me.

Heather Tyler

0425 274 681

canteenphps@gmail.com

APPOINTMENTS

The Uniform Shop will continue to be open by appointment only for the foreseeable future.  This will assist us in maintaining physical distancing and minimise waiting times for you to be served. 

• Appointments can be booked on Eventbrite using the following link: https://phps-uniform-shop.eventbrite.com
• Appointment times are in 15-minute increments and are open to 2-3 bookings per available timeslot. As these are not individual appointments you may need to wait until the person before you has been served.
• If the available times are not suitable, please contact us via email at phpsuniformshop@gmail.comto organise alternative arrangements.

SECOND HAND

Second Hand / Preloved items will continue to be available online via Flexischools.  Only items in very good condition will be added for sales online, and these items currently will not be available for purchase directly from the shop.  If you don’t find what you are looking for on Flexischools then you can book an appointment to look through the unsorted/unlisted items at the shop. 

https://user.flexischools.com.au/login

Janine Sherlock

Uniform Shop Manager

phpsuniformshop@gmail.com

Ryde Eisteddfod Result

Future Band Events

Our performance calendar has a number of events for the year. So please keep your eye on this section of the newsletter for important dates to keep free.

• Performance Assembly, Wednesday afternoon 7th September - TB, ICB
• Music by Moonlight, NWPS, Sat 17th Sept - SCB
• Hornsby North Band Festival, Sun 30th October - JB, SCB, ICB, TB
• Christmas Carols, Dec - All Bands

Keep your eye on the newsletter, WhatsApp and emails for more details.

Senior Concert Band

Please ensure you're practising the following pieces  **priority:

• Arabian Dancers (https://youtu.be/MUkWjYMcRBQ)
• Tales of the Sea (https://youtu.be/f_JNFoSTkDw)
• **Circus Marchimus
• **Crocodile Rock

On a more serious note, our conductor has been having to deal with some less than impressive behaviour during rehearsals. Some students are constantly talking, or playing, when they shouldn't be. There are a number of culprits and he has had to speak to the same people about it every week. From the next rehearsal we will be re-introducing the "red book" which essentially lists people who are given repeated warnings: 1 - verbal warning, 2 - short time out, 3 - name in red book. The red book will be handed to Mrs Griffiths or Mr Pinchbeck at certain intervals if names continue to appear in there. To avoid having to do this please remind your children about being polite and respectful during rehearsals. Students should not be shouting out, talking over the conductor, touching each other's instruments, messing with percussion, jumping up to hit ceiling fans, etc. Hopefully this is just a blip and a few reminders will settle everyone down.

Jazz Band

Please ensure you're practising the following:

• Blues Machine (https://youtu.be/x6LehBpCZJc)
• **Havana (https://youtu.be/A9DnpdPEiRI)
• **Hit the Road Jack (https://youtu.be/ia027MOA0qk)

Intermediate Band

Please ensure you're practising the following pieces as well as working on your term 3 worksheet exercises:

• **Star Wars (https://youtu.be/wyna3F9fByM)
• **Tequila (https://youtu.be/IXOccbAPRy0)
• **The Spook (https://brolgamusic.com/catalog/spook)

Training Band

Please ensure you're practising the following pieces as well as working on your term 3 worksheet exercises  :

• **Lets Rock (https://youtu.be/UZBFR-A9n7U)
• **Lullaby (https://brolgamusic.com/catalog/lullaby)

Regarding Wet Weather

If it's raining the flutes, clarinets, & trumpet players can put their cases under their chairs inside and pack away in there. 

Unfortunately the larger instruments are a little harder, ideally if it's only a little wet they will need to pack away outside on the ramped area. If it's bucketing down, then having them pack away inside may be necessary.

Term 3 Parent Helper Rosters Open

There are still a number of slots open in all bands.

Please get them filled in ASAP

• Training Band Parent Roster - Term 3
• Intermediate Band Parent Helper Roster - Term 3
• Senior Concert Band Parent Roster - Term 3

 

Award Worksheets

We're now at the beginning of Term 3, so Training and Intermediate bands really should have completed their current Term 1 & Term 2 worksheets. There are still a number of people who have not submitted these. Please work with your children's tutor to get these signed off as soon as possible.

Once complete these are to be submitted through the Worksheet Submission Web Form.

If anyone needs a particular worksheet you can print them from the Band web pages here.

Parent Helper Duties:

A full list of parent helper duties is available here.

• Crowding the door - please don't let the students crowd the door with bags and instrument cases. School bags on the silver shelves, instrument cases on the ramp.
• Behavior: If children are talking out of turn please help the conductors. If they have a question, classroom rules apply, they raise their hand and wait to be asked. Please use the red "Student Behavior'' if behavior warrants it

Parent Helpers:

Big thank-you to this week's helpers

• Xudong C & Eva G (TB)
• Rosemary C (ICB)
• Jo C (SCB Mon)
• Ying M & TBA (SCB Thurs)

Many thanks,

PHPS Band Committee

phpsband@gmail.com

www.phpspandc.org.au/band/

MAIN ENSEMBLE REHEARSAL FOR TERM 3: K-2 Hall IS THIS AFTERNOON 3:30pm-4:30pm, followed by FOIM until 5:30pm.

Students not doing FOIM should be picked up at the usual time of 4:30pm

Main Ensemble Parent Helper today is Sonya DeBono (Thankyou Sonya)

FOIM Parent Helper today is Christine Lee (Thankyou Christine)

TERM 3 MAIN ENSEMBLE ROSTER IS FULL A big thanks for the parents who have put their hands up to help; we are grateful for the support. 

TERM 3 FOIM ROSTER Week 5 & Week 6 still require parent help please. 

THE TERM 3 ROSTER IS OPEN String Ensemble Roster 2022 

For new parents, as part of being in the Strings program, we need each family to take a turn as parent helper, once per term. 

• The tasks required as parent helper are pretty simple
• Arrive by 3:25pm and sign in at the office, and complete the external visitor’s form
• Go to the classroom, and assist the conductor with setting up the room, including any COVID safe practices
• Assist the conductor with anything needed during the rehearsal (eg: distributing music to the kids)
• Assist with pack up at the end of the rehearsal

If you require any further information, clarification regarding the ROSTER / PARENT HELPER please feel free to contact us. 

Keep an eye on the newsletter, WhatsApp and emails for further String communications. 

We are also looking for new committee members. Please get in touch if you can lend a hand. Thanks!

If you need any further information, you can reach out via email: phpsstrings@gmail.com

PHPS String Ensemble

Website: www.phpspandc.org.au/string-ensemble

Feedback: www.phpspandc.org.au/string-ensemble/contact-us